Depression as a medical condition is misunderstood. The illness is surrounded by great stigma because our society stays silent about mental health issues. There is a perception that sustained sadness sometimes without an outside cause is merely imaginary. I considered writing a technical, well-researched article about symptoms to look out for if you suspect yourself…

So I did the craziest thing ever. I signed up for a dating site. Why, I don’t know. I didn’t understand the big hype about finding someone online. I mean, meeting someone in person seemed way more romantic and potentially safer. Dating online seemed rather ridiculous. So I would never have considered it, if it…

When I was a young mother I read a lot of parenting books and magazines. I bought and kept these as I had my four children. But as my children grew I realised how an approach that would work for one child would dismally fail flat for another. I potty-trained my oldest child using the…

Until of May 30th, 2019 I always thought of myself as a Black woman. I’m sure you’re wondering what happened on that day. Well, I’ll tell you. It was the day I arrived in Cape Town from the United States. I’d never been anywhere south of the equator before, let alone by myself. But here…

At the beginning of July this year, I was invited to an event called the Klerksdorp Youth Leadership Talks. While I was there, one of the five speakers who was set to give a talk about the Fourth Industrial Revolution spoke about “black tax” – a topic that always comes up whenever young black people…

I have been raped twice. I believed I deserved it, and so did my boyfriend who slapped my face and locked me out when I came crying to him after the second rape. I was drunk at the time. On one hand, the rapes distressed me. On the other, I expected to be treated like…

I often hear people say that technology has lowered the level of human intelligence. Researchers say that because of social media and the fact that people are overloaded with information on the internet, young people are less able to concentrate on one thing at a time, and this has affected the way they learn. It…

You’ve met the partner of your dreams. You’re happy and in love. The only problem is that he or she has to leave for work abroad for a year. What are the options? Either you guys decide to call it quits, or you make the difficult decision to have a long distance relationship. The idea…